archiestone

sunbc

sonyguy wrote:Hello, I work at Sony. 4.0 ICS has been available on this device since the spring. Anyone who buys Sony Tablet S can instantly upgrade as soon as the Tablet is connected to a Wi-Fi signal.

canswoot

archiwiz

archiwiz wrote:Ahem... I don't know if anyone has asked this yet, but I was holding out for a price reduction on these until the Surface was announced. I will definitely be getting a Surface once they're available, but this is sooooooo tempting. Can anyone offer advice on this dilemma?

So no one is considering a Surface rather than this? Or even waiting for the new Sony tablets next month? I'd hate to go all in now, only to regret it in 2 months.

mrln

rhannig wrote:Question: Is there a work around for the lack of HDMI out?

Depends. Amazon reviews and notebook sites reviewing this tablet say it has a DLNA server on the tablet itself. I don't own any other DLNA devices, but it appears from what others are saying that the tablet itself can serve music and video up to another DLNA device like a TV. It appears the DLNA devices the tablet sees are automatically listed and you throw the data to the receiving device you want to listen/display on.

The full extent of how this works, I don't know: I don't know the max quality of the video it can serve; I don't know if can mirror (what's on the device screen as opposed to the video data); I don't know the distance/range or how well it works; I don't know how much bandwidth it's going to suck from your wireless network; I don't know the battery life effects. Yes, I'm pretty damn useless that way.

Anyways, it may explain Sony's stupid decision not to have some video out on this (MHL, micro-HDMI).

Since no one's answered...I'll take a roundabout stab. Yes, I truly, really am useless.

I don't own one (well, I do, but you know, it's from this site woot having a sale today). MHL *appears* to be a no go. I found one person who claimed they tried with an MHL adapter/cable from another tablet and it didn't work. MHL doesn't appear either in a manual pdf I looked at. That said, one site had MHL listed on a version (think some network 3g/4g one if that actually exists) but not the plain version (this one). Another foreign site (cough) site sells an MHL adapter for this. Doesn't seem anyone has claimed to have gotten anything working, which for a tablet of this age, is not a good sign that it's there, particularly considering the lack of a dedicated HDMI port of some sort to begin with.

scubalab

I don't own one (well, I do, but you know, it's from this site woot having a sale today). MHL *appears* to be a no go. I found one person who claimed they tried with an MHL adapter/cable from another tablet and it didn't work. MHL doesn't appear either in a manual pdf I looked at. That said, one site had MHL listed on a version (think some network 3g/4g one if that actually exists) but not the plain version (this one). Another foreign site (cough) site sells an MHL adapter for this. Doesn't seem anyone has claimed to have gotten anything working, which for a tablet of this age, is not a good sign that it's there, particularly considering the lack of a dedicated HDMI port of some sort to begin with.

Thanks mrln! Obviously, since I already purchased today's Woot!... not a dealbreaker!

KeriBroderick

bkd69

Pulled the trigger. Video out is not a deal breaker, I'd like GPS, but that's not a deal breaker at this price...what I was really looking for was PDF and comics reader, so it was the screen size that sold it for me.

But still, Sony. I love their hardware, I hate their platform implementation.

nordburgh

Dr_Romulus wrote:I'm not really asking if a plethora of file formats are supported, what I am talking about is Cinavia stopping the audio playback, about 20 min in, on ANY file format that is converted from a BluRay. I convert all my movies to 720p MP4 H.264 files to use on portable devices or stream to my various TVs. The Green Hornet, Wrath of the Titans & Project X all are Cinavia files that I can think of where the PS3 will kill the audio because of Cinavia[in any file format] and I would like to know if this will as well.

Well you can check out this link here: http://blog.dvdfab.com/cinavia-protection.html

It lists all media that has Cinavia and all known devices to support Cinavia. This doesn't mean Sony can't update it to support Cinavia though. This list also probably isn't exhaustive. It's still possible this device supports it.

commonwealth109

I'm confused with the a new feature of Woot!, although it is on the flashlight sale at Sport! The way site is operating it wants me to pay $10 shipping if I buy two different colors of flashlights? But if I buy two of same color I pay $5 shipping?

inkycatz

I'm confused with the a new feature of Woot!, although it is on the flashlight sale at Sport! The way site is operating it wants me to pay $10 shipping if I buy two different colors of flashlights? But if I buy two of same color I pay $5 shipping?

Something doesn't seem to make sense there.

Your first order will unlock free shipping.

I just tested this on the ICON Rogue 1, CREE LED Flashlight offer - I put a green and gray one of this model in my cart and it says $5 shipping. If this isn't what's happening and you're getting charged twice for shipping, please let service@woot.com know so they can fix it for you.

alanhwoot

Most larger tablets have proprietary chargers, though sometimes they allow USB charging as well. The issue is simply that standard USB charging is 2.5 Watts, and and at most 10 Watts. By comparison, my Thrive charger is 30 Watts.

commonwealth109

I just tested this on the ICON Rogue 1, CREE LED Flashlight offer - I put a green and gray one of this model in my cart and it says $5 shipping. If this isn't what's happening and you're getting charged twice for shipping, please let service@woot.com know so they can fix it for you.

I just can't figure out how to put two different items in my cart, maybe I'm just dumb. It looks like I have to check out with every item I want to buy.

So now I do understand it's $5 shipping for the day, but I'll have like 10 seperate credit card charges, one for every kid's shirt, shorts, flashlight I buy. I guess that's no biggie.

commonwealth109

alanhwoot wrote:Once you select the quantity, multiple drop-downs should appear letting you select which color for each item.

I guess I'm just being hard to understand. I'm now 100% fine with multiple items of the same item. But I have to have one invoice for a blue kids polo, another for a white kids polo, another for a rogue 1 flashlight, another for a rougue 2 flashlight, and one last invoice for my irix headlamp. Either I'm dumb for doing it this way, or the site is making me do a bunch of extra clicks over and over and over again.

hughcook

I am curious to know if anyone can tell me if there is an excellent case to slip this jewell into. This may help those concerned about lack of Dragon or Gorilla glass. This would relieve my concern as well.

miikl1

Okay, I stared at this thing all day online, read reviews, really couldn't find anything that bad on it beyond battery life. And there's apps for that, so might be something to do there.

My only experience with tablets was with a Galaxy Tab 10" that ended up getting returned. The price didn't justify it-- kept having to reboot to factory, bluetooth got all jacked up, and it was no more fun than my Samsung smartphone. I became so frustrated with it, it just wasn't worth the effort.

miikl1

miikl1 wrote:Okay, I stared at this thing all day online, read reviews, really couldn't find anything that bad on it beyond battery life. And there's apps for that, so might be something to do there.

My only experience with tablets was with a Galaxy Tab 10" that ended up getting returned. The price didn't justify it-- kept having to reboot to factory, bluetooth got all jacked up, and it was no more fun than my Samsung smartphone. I became so frustrated with it, it just wasn't worth the effort.

borntohunt

keiluk2000 wrote:Just checked out the Nexus 7 in one of the local store and found out that the Nexus 7 didn't support the adobe flash player. That means a lot of graphic applications can't run on the Nexus 7....

Google's decision for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was to NOT support Adobe's Flash Player on any tablet computer, at least for now but noone knows the future if that will ever change.

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